Why is this thread being bumped? Giroud has actually been a great servent recently. He is no where close to being our problem this season. And he - like the rest of the team - is not going to come out and say "yeah Wenger is a shit manager".

Problem is the more players come out with this stuff the more likely Wenger is gonna believe it and it plays into the mans wrinkly old hands......but Wenger is gonna do what he is gonna do regardless i guess!

Of course the current squad of players (barring Sanchez) want Wenger to stay. They all seemingly lack the ambition and talent to take it to the next step that a new manager would obviously seek to take the club to. It's all too comfortable from top to bottom at our club.

I think you're reading too much into a bad couple of weeks for the squad tbh. I know everything surrounding the club right now is either a shambles, disgrace or embarrassing blah blah and all the rest of it but there's some substance in Wenger saying this is his worse period in his entire 20 years here

Maybe at the end of the season, where we'll see how much the squad can salvage of this shitty season, it'll be more clear to see how the squad felt.

it really isn't out of the question that he is on the verge of losing the dressing room if not already.

I really do feel it's happened already. Whether they outwardly admit it or not their actions on the field project a complete lack of belief in either their own ability or in the football they are being asked to play. They must have doubts, they aren't morons, some must have harboured those doubts for some time now and being in the midst of the managers worst run in 20+ years will only heighten those doubts.

Girouds words of backing come from the right place but if him and his teammates aren't going to perform the way they are being asked to and if nothing Wenger is saying is making the difference then i can only conclude that Wenger has "lost the dressing room"...It may well be the first case of this happening where they don't even want him to leave/be sacked but it doesn't​ mean that cliche can't hold true anyway.

I don't think Wenger's lost the dressing room tbh. They're still firmly behind him and will always be. Wenger's the best some of these players will ever have if they want to play for a big club and have full confidence coming from the manager. It's just that these players don't know what to do and really lack confidence to turn this situation around. Once they string together 3 wins the whole Wenger lost the dressing room story will be fully gone. It won't matter though as the manager still won't put them in a position to actually achieve something.

I was being sarcastic, with bad grammar. I was implying that without Wenger and the poor form, Giroud would be amazing. But like I said, it was sarcasm. Giroud would be Giroud no matter who was in charge.